Paying for the plumbinghttps://groups.drupal.org/not_used/122674
A group for discussion of creative funding and business models to provide sustainability for developers contributing to DrupalenPaying for the Plumbing: Group Purposehttps://groups.drupal.org/node/219489
<p>It's easy to make a living using Drupal. It's far more difficult to make a living building Drupal. At present the community relies largely on volunteer time, a few generous companies that have the ability to subsidize people's time, or the rare case where one organization is willing to foot the bill for the first copy cost. But increasingly, we all depend on "tools to build tools", such as Fields, Views, Drupal core enhancements, and other frameworks or API's that make our work point-and-click. How do individuals and organizations make the building of Drupal's plumbing sustainable?</p>
<p>This group looks to consolidate some of these ideas and discussions in one place, providing a venue for people to discuss creative funding solutions or business models that can add sustainability and a source of income for individuals contributing back to Drupal, whether that's through work on Core, contributing modules or themes, or building new frameworks for other developers to use in their own development.</p>
https://groups.drupal.org/node/219489#commentsPaying for the plumbingFri, 23 Mar 2012 00:43:52 +0000mlncn219489 at https://groups.drupal.orgSnowball Charterhttps://groups.drupal.org/node/190094
<p><strong>Snowball: Getting projects rolling! Coordinating community initiatives in Free Software and beyond.</strong> (<a href="http://visionsunite.org/snowball">Sign up for updates on Snowball</a>.)</p>
<p>We can realize the huge potential in the gap between desired projects that individually people and organizations in our communities do not have the capability or resources to make happen— but collectively do.</p>
<p>Snowball seeks to help people find one other and to reduce coordination friction, transaction costs, and risks. Part of this vision is driven by the idea of the power of everyone being in one network and so able to find one another based on interest and rely on one another based on skill, availability, and past reliability.</p>
<p>Our first step is to provide a platform where project goals and roles can be very clearly defined, so that people coming from various perspectives can move forward together.</p>
<h2>Unfulfilled Promise which Snowball Seeks to Fulfill</h2>
<ul><li>People deserve cool things.</li>
<li>People creating cool things deserve support.</li>
</ul><h2>Problems Snowball Seeks to Solve</h2>
<ul><li>People who would like to support an idea but cannot do it all themselves do not have a way to move forward.</li>
<li>Potential collaborators do not have clarity on what proposals exist, who has committed to working on them, and the specification of what is proposed to be done. This lack of clarity can lead to duplication of effort, and consequent underresourcing of efforts.</li>
<li>Potential supporters do not have a good way of understanding the level of technical vetting a proposal has.</li>
<li>Potential supporters do not always have a transparent view of the risks to a proposal's success.</li>
<li>Many good developers are using Free Software, not contributing to Free Software, even though they would prefer to work directly on projects benefiting the community.</li>
</ul><h2>Background and progress</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://groups.drupal.org/node/190239">Why Snowball?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/189589">Tools to Help Coordinate and Fund Community Initiatives: The Snowball Code Sprint (2011 November)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://groups.drupal.org/node/190054">Snowball: Getting Community Initiatives Rolling- Coordinating and Funding Drupal Projects - 2011 November Sprint Day 1</a></li>
<li><a href="https://groups.drupal.org/node/190049">User stories (specifications) and requirements for Snowball: Getting Community Initiatives Rolling</a></li>
<li><a href="https://groups.drupal.org/node/217309">Paying for the Plumbing: Snowball initiative for a Drupal crowdfunding platform (Initial crowdfunding campaign)</a></li>
</ul><h2>Related resources</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://drupalopenlearning.org/snowball">Snowball (Drupal Open Learning collaboration group)</a></li>
<li>This <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/paying-plumbing">Paying for the Plumbing (groups.drupal.org more general discussion group)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://visionsunite.org/snowball">Sign up to stay informed</a> (a bit more selectively and directly than joining this group)</li>
</ul>https://groups.drupal.org/node/190094#commentsPaying for the plumbingSat, 12 Nov 2011 22:32:33 +0000mlncn190094 at https://groups.drupal.orgCome learn about Drutopia - Drupal as a Service - A framework for an ecosystem of free software distributionshttps://groups.drupal.org/node/517269
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<p>August is here, let's celebrate Drupal! Why? - do we need a reason?<br />
While there is a regular monthly meetup there is also a mission to build a Drupal as a Service full featured distribution of Drupal for organizing and campaigns. There is NationBuilder and other proprietary tools that are available, but why not a Drupal solution?</p>
<p>Come learn about the Drutopia distribution and how grassroots groups will be able to easily create a Drupal 8 site with pre-configured selectable features and the SAAS hosting option. Drutopia.org</p>
<p>So for those outside the Drupal/FreeSoftware community, I've been skipping over Drutopia and just talking about Solidarity. I find that people just get confused with the relationship between Drutopia and Solidarity and it's really Solidarity that is going to be most interesting and relevant to them.</p>
<p>So with that in mind, here's a first draft of text for the one page informational sheet.</p>
<p>Our movements are growing and more easily coordinating with one another to live out these values of solidarity, but all too often we’re dependent on platforms and tools that don’t have our best interests in mind.</p>
<p>Solidarity is a member-based, Libre Software as a Service tool for grassroots organizations to effectively network and organize online.</p>
<p>The platform is built around four main features: groups, campaigns, actions and news.</p>
<p>A hosted option is available for $50/month which provides membership to Solidarity, covers security updates for the site and priority in determining the roadmap for future development.</p>
<p>Learn more at drutopia.org/solidarity</p>
<p>We will gather at the Tang Center at MIT in room E51:<br />
E51-145 : <a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E51" title="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E51">http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E51</a><br />
Date: Tue 08/22/17<br />
Time: 6:30p - 9:00p</p>
<p>We will have dinner after the meetup at Clover in Kendall Square.</p>
<p>Unless you have already spoken to an Agaric and confirmed... Please RSVP<br /><a href="https://www.meetup.com/Boston-Business-and-Tech-Meetup/events/242470027/" title="https://www.meetup.com/Boston-Business-and-Tech-Meetup/events/242470027/">https://www.meetup.com/Boston-Business-and-Tech-Meetup/events/242470027/</a></p>
https://groups.drupal.org/node/517269#commentsBoston ProperBostonServicesPaying for the plumbingDiversity and OutreachFri, 11 Aug 2017 16:57:09 +0000freescholar517269 at https://groups.drupal.orgRequest for input: What should our next Drupal boot camp look like?https://groups.drupal.org/node/418673
<p>Droplabs is planning its next Drupal boot camp and we're asking for help from you to make it even better than last time. If you have any interest in applying for the next boot camp — or sending developers from your company or organization — please take a look at the following posts:</p>
<p> <strong>What would you like our next boot camp to focus on?</strong><br />
<a href="https://groups.drupal.org/node/416448" title="https://groups.drupal.org/node/416448">https://groups.drupal.org/node/416448</a></p>
<p> <strong>Would you pay / donate to attend our next developer boot camp?</strong><br />
<a href="https://groups.drupal.org/node/416443" title="https://groups.drupal.org/node/416443">https://groups.drupal.org/node/416443</a></p>
<p> <strong>What is the top reason you'd become a sponsor (food, venue, financial, etc.) of our next developer boot camp?</strong><br />
<a href="https://groups.drupal.org/node/416453" title="https://groups.drupal.org/node/416453">https://groups.drupal.org/node/416453</a></p>
<p>There have been around 20 votes so far but in reality this represents a pretty small number. We need more input! If you'd like to help shape the next boot camp, place your votes and post your comments!</p>
<h2>About the module development boot camp</h2>
<p>What's this "boot camp", you ask? In case you didn't apply or go to the last one, it was a series of 13 sessions (or 14, depending on who you ask) dedicated to teaching the fundamental PHP and Drupal API knowledge needed to become a Drupal module developer. Some of the modules the boot camp attendees finished and contributed to Drupal.org include:</p>
<p> <strong>Password Backup &amp; Restore</strong><br />
<a href="https://drupal.org/sandbox/digitalroots/2153457" title="https://drupal.org/sandbox/digitalroots/2153457">https://drupal.org/sandbox/digitalroots/2153457</a></p>
<p> <strong>Librivox Search</strong><br />
<a href="https://drupal.org/sandbox/pkosenko/2122647" title="https://drupal.org/sandbox/pkosenko/2122647">https://drupal.org/sandbox/pkosenko/2122647</a></p>
<p> <strong>mlgeneratev2</strong><br />
<a href="https://drupal.org/sandbox/fejn/2183185" title="https://drupal.org/sandbox/fejn/2183185">https://drupal.org/sandbox/fejn/2183185</a></p>
<p> <strong>Cron Key</strong><br />
<a href="https://drupal.org/cron_key" title="https://drupal.org/cron_key">https://drupal.org/cron_key</a></p>
<p>The boot camp was free and was for the community, by the community. That means it was entirely volunteer-run! Instructors were Ron Golan, Stew Pringle and myself. Both <a href="http://droplabs.net">Droplabs</a> and <a href="http://www.larks.la">Exaltation of Larks</a> were sponsors of the boot camp and provided the venue space, complimentary Droplabs memberships and supplemental instruction.</p>
<h2>What you can do</h2>
<p>There are a lot of things you can do:</p>
<ol><li>Take a look at the questions above and vote on the polls
</li><li>Post in the comments below, ask your questions and make some suggestions!
</li><li>Registration will open soon so get ready to apply if you want to get trained — or send your developers to be trained
</li><li><a href="http://droplabs.net/contact">Contact Droplabs</a> you want to be a food, drinks or financial sponsor of the next boot camp
</li></ol><p>Thanks!</p>
https://groups.drupal.org/node/418673#commentsmodbootcamp2DroplabsGeneral discussionsCurriculum and TrainingLA Drupal [Los Angeles Drupal]Paying for the plumbingGreater Los Angeles Drupal (GLAD)Mon, 14 Apr 2014 23:52:26 +0000christefano418673 at https://groups.drupal.orgGitTip - Ongoing micro-funding and distributed genius grantshttps://groups.drupal.org/node/307233
<p>I just happened across what seems to be a pretty cool project for micro-funding: GitTip. There is a community for Drupallers <a href="https://www.gittip.com/for/drupal/" title="https://www.gittip.com/for/drupal/">https://www.gittip.com/for/drupal/</a> but they require at least 150 members before they will show the members of the community. Drupal had 20 community members this morning and is now up to 30 which is great as percent growth, but pretty small overall.</p>
<p>I encourage folks to sign in there (uses twitter or facebook or github Oauth).</p>
<p>GitTip advertises themselves as <em>Distributed Genius Grants</em> which is a pretty fun idea. It's also possible for organizations to sign up as donors which helps get notoriety for their organization by being one of the biggest contributor within a community (e.g. MaxCDN is the biggest contributor inside PHP community right now).</p>
https://groups.drupal.org/node/307233#commentscrowd fundingpaying for the plumbingProjects Needing FinancingPaying for the plumbingWed, 10 Jul 2013 22:31:16 +0000greggles307233 at https://groups.drupal.orgMarketing Fundraising Brainstormhttps://groups.drupal.org/node/263193
<p>The Drupal Branding And Marketing Committee {BAM} needs your help!<br />
We are trying to come up with Fundraising Ideas and we would like to hear ideas from you. These ideas must be NEW and not pull funds away from existing sources that already support the Drupal Association.</p>
<p><strong>Where Does The Money Go?</strong><br />
BAM is working on some BIG goals. You can participate in the conversation here on GDO. Right now, we are working on several initiatives that each would require a financial outlay. Plus, we are planning for a significant investment throughout 2013 for the launch of Drupal 8. Our ideas include the purchase of print ads, video production, swag, exhibit booth materials, printed material, professional analysis services, and much more.</p>
<p><strong>Who Is / What Is BAM?</strong><br />
BAM is a grassroots committee, led by Ben Finklea, that exists under the DA and consists of at least one board member and an international cast of independent Drupalers, shop owners, marketers, designers, themers, and coders, who volunteer their time, talents, and resources to place Drupal in the best position possible for future growth via Branding and Marketing. Read more about the creation of BAM in the official announcement by the DA. <a href="https://association.drupal.org/about/staff/marketing-branding-committee" title="https://association.drupal.org/about/staff/marketing-branding-committee">https://association.drupal.org/about/staff/marketing-branding-committee</a></p>
<p><strong>Why Fund Raising?</strong><br />
BAM seeks to be as self sufficient as possible. The DA operates on a budget and, like any other organization, would do more if it had more. BAM would like to raise money for the DA that will be earmarked for Marketing, PR, and branding-related expenditures. The DA Board will approve any fundraising activities as well as each marketing initiative. So, just to be clear, this discussion is about ideas to raise funds not how they will be spent. We'll put the best ideas into a proposal for the DA Board to approve.</p>
<p><strong>What Is Fund Raising?</strong><br />
For our purposes this fund raising effort will be a vehicle to create new sources of income for the DA which will be used for BAM related expenses. Suggestions may be a single idea with a one time payout or for an arrangement that would bring in ongoing income.</p>
<p>Just reply to this thread with your ideas. Once we get a volume of them, we may post them on a Wiki for easier display and management.</p>
<p><strong>Thank you from the BAM committee!</strong></p>
https://groups.drupal.org/node/263193#commentsBAM IdeasThe Marketing of DrupalDrupal AssociationPaying for the plumbingSun, 21 Oct 2012 17:47:29 +0000dougvann263193 at https://groups.drupal.orgPaying for the Plumbing: Snowball initiative for a Drupal crowdfunding platformhttps://groups.drupal.org/node/217309
<p>Ever wanted a place where you could simply offer to pay to get something you need in Drupal done?</p>
<p><a href="https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/snowball-getting-community-initiatives-in-free-software-rolling">Please donate to make that place</a>. (Yes, it's using a different crowdfunding platform, one that really lacks features for coordination, but is passing on all money raised -- if we reach the minimum -- without even deducting credit card fees.)</p>
<p>And spread this link! <a href="http://tilt.tc/usLL" title="http://tilt.tc/usLL">http://tilt.tc/usLL</a> Is there enough interest in community funding of Drupal software to fund the software to coordinate this-- in just a few days? Also, if you are available to work on this project in DrupalCon Denver, we've got a DrupalCon ticket for you! Or if you're interested in working on this later, contact me for that, too!</p>
<p>You have expressed an interest in Drupal's future in the past, and one* of<br />
my gambits for tilting that for the better has been talking at every Drupal<br />
event since the Chicago Con about building a central, wholly not-for-profit<br />
and transparent gathering space for ideas and needs to gain clarity and gain<br />
the support and resources to become real initiatives.</p>
<p>Please ask anyone who may also think there remains unrealized potential in<br />
our awesome community to register their support with a tax deductible<br />
donation of any amount.</p>
<p><a href="http://tilt.tc/usLL" title="http://tilt.tc/usLL">http://tilt.tc/usLL</a></p>
<ul><li>Money will <em>only to be collected if the funding goal is reached</em></li>
<li>No credit card processing fees or any transaction fees for the first and<br />
last time in the history of online fundraising.</li>
<li>Funds raised are slated to go to Cameron Eagans (<a href="http://drupal.org/user/404732">cweagans</a>), becoming well<br />
known as a clutch community pinch hitter.</li>
</ul><p>Allie Micka, Jer Davis, and Barry Madore of Advantage Labs, R.J. Steinert,<br />
myself and others have already put in significant <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/189589">time</a> into <a href="groups.drupal.org/node/190049">planning</a> a first<br />
version of this, and will continue to work on it. The money requested is<br />
almost symbolic to the task at hand but it will help give us and other<br />
volunteers faith that there are some people in this community who will<br />
donate at all!</p>
<p>If you would like to be kept in the loop for gatherings about Snowball<br />
(tools for getting community initiatives rolling) at DrupalCon and elsewhere<br /><em>please</em> sign up to <a href="http://eepurl.com/db4nI" title="http://eepurl.com/db4nI">http://eepurl.com/db4nI</a> -- any e-mail list i send to is<br />
extremely low volume, once or twice a year.</p>
<p>There is at least one DrupalCon ticket available for someone else who would<br />
like to work on Snowball in Denver - or for 'purchase' for contributing to<br /><a href="http://tilt.tc/usLL" title="http://tilt.tc/usLL">http://tilt.tc/usLL</a> -</p>
<p>Thank you, please share widely!</p>
<p>benjamin</p>
<ul><li>(My other bid for keeping and building on Drupal's community advantage has<br />
been <a href="http://dgd7.org" title="http://dgd7.org">http://dgd7.org</a> and trying to put people interested in Drupal on the<br />
path to contributing.)</li>
</ul><p>P.S. Whether Snowball is a funded project to talk about will in part<br />
determine if i fly off to DrupalCon at a last minute decision.</p>
<p>-- <a href="http://agaric.com/">Agaric</a></p>
https://groups.drupal.org/node/217309#commentscollaborative fundingcrowdfundingdrupal fundsfunding reverse bountyDiscussion, Coffeetalk, or BOFGrowing DrupalDeveloper proposal for otherConsulting and BusinessProjects Needing FinancingDrupal DojoContributed Module IdeasDrupal.org ImprovementsDrupal ProductsPaying for the plumbingWed, 14 Mar 2012 12:33:23 +0000mlncn217309 at https://groups.drupal.orgSponsor the LA Drupal Associationhttps://groups.drupal.org/la/sponsorship
<p>In 2010, local Los Angeles-area organizers formed an unincorporated association named "LA Drupal Association" that is officially recognized as a legal entity by the State of California. This means that Los Angeles-area Drupal user groups now have the ability to receive donations and sponsorships large and small to help members produce the events, trainings and conferences that local Drupal user groups in Los Angeles are known for, as well as cover ongoing infrastructure and promotion costs.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=5AYW9LAJZCNA4" border="0" alt="Use PayPal to donate to the LA Drupal Association"><img align="left" src="/misc/watchdog-error.png" width="92" height="26" hspace="10" vspace="5" title="Only local images are allowed." alt="Only local images are allowed." /></a> We can receive <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=5AYW9LAJZCNA4" border="0" alt="Use PayPal to donate to the LA Drupal Association">sponsorships and donations via PayPal</a> as well as checks written out to <em>LA Drupal Association</em>.</p>
<h2>Why sponsor the LA Drupal Association?</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.paypal.com/us/verified/pal=sponsors%40ladrupal%2eorg" target="_blank"><img align="right" src="/misc/watchdog-error.png" border="0" alt="Only local images are allowed." width="75" height="75" hspace="10" vspace="5" title="Only local images are allowed." /></a> Sponsoring the LA Drupal Association is not only a great way to get your message before a targeted audience of Drupal users, developers, businesspeople, and other web professionals, it’s also a great way to increase the equity of your brand as a company or organization that supports one of the largest and fastest-growing Drupal user groups in the world.</p>
<p>When you sponsor the LA Drupal Association, you are not only presenting yourself to our members, you are displaying yourself to a vast network of Drupal users and web professionals throughout California and beyond.</p>
https://groups.drupal.org/la/sponsorship#commentsAnnouncementsLA Drupal Associationpaying for the plumbingsponsorshipBAM IdeasThe Marketing of DrupalLA Drupal [Los Angeles Drupal]Paying for the plumbingWed, 22 Feb 2012 22:56:29 +0000christefano212063 at https://groups.drupal.orgBetter recognition for businesses?https://groups.drupal.org/node/205983
<p>At Drupal Down Under a few weeks ago, Dries was asked a question about how to get companies more enthusiastic about staff spending time on Drupal core.</p>
<p>One of the points he mentioned is that currently, <em>people</em> get recognition for contributions. For example, everyone who's spent a bit of time in the community knows people such as merlinofchaos, sun, chx etc..</p>
<p>But who do they work for? Are they working on Drupal core while they are being paid? If so, shouldn't the names of those companies be as recognisable and respected as the individuals? Personally, I think so. Companies would be much more inclined to allow staff to contribute to Drupal if their brand got more visibility.</p>
<p>The question is, what's the best way to make this happen? How is it judged? How does it mesh with individual contributions?</p>
https://groups.drupal.org/node/205983#commentsPaying for the plumbingSat, 28 Jan 2012 12:57:06 +0000nicksanta205983 at https://groups.drupal.orgDrupal Developer | Vodaplexhttps://groups.drupal.org/node/203643
<p>We are a young startup that has built an interesting sales/marketing platform around the Drupal Platform. We are a strong believer in open source. This means we don't just take, but also give back when we can. We helped fund much of the Braintree merchant gateway module.</p>
<p>We are looking for an experienced Drupal developer who would be interested in a part time telecommuting position. This individual would have at least 2-3 yrs experience in drupal development. Knows the development environment well. Knows, Eclipse, XDebug, LAMP, Mysql and is familiar with modules like ubercart, paypal, braintree, simplenews, events, etc... Must know the Drupal and theming architecture well.</p>
<p>Pay:Hourly (based on experience)</p>
<p>Please contact</p>
<p>Will Berger<br /><a href="mailto:wberger@vodaplex.com">wberger@vodaplex.com</a><br />
678-317-9002<br /><a href="https://wberger.vodaplex.com" title="https://wberger.vodaplex.com">https://wberger.vodaplex.com</a></p>
consulting contractConsulting and BusinessAtlantaPHPPaying for the plumbingThu, 19 Jan 2012 00:24:19 +0000wberger@vodaplex.com203643 at https://groups.drupal.org